2 City demographics and crime profile in Chicago Chicago is a large and attractive city in the United States. In this paper, we shall discuss the demographics of the city and analyze its criminal profile. It will link the city's social and intellectual contexts and more precisely come up with the factor that might be elevating the crime in the city. It will describe some of the beliefs that people who live in Chicago conform to that contribute to the way they live. Explaining why their attitudes are fixed towards behavior that promotes crime (Barton, 2016). Some of the primary reasons that contribute to changes in criminal behavior are on how people use public resources. Besides, the transportation system, values of the property business, and retail as one tends to go by the countryside of the city. Crime has recorded a long relationship mostly with the city of Chicago as a result of a political faction. Politics plays a more significant role in the social life of ethnic group struggling to survive in the urban slums. As a consequence of the link between labor and business activities, which has made urban life more difficult and accompanied by lawlessness. The courts, criminal institutions, and the police have conducted several actions in fight and support of these equally (Jefferson, 2018). The police have sided with the politicians to bend the laws to win the favor of security and bill. This lead to the elimination of some freedoms enjoyed by the people to create room for criminal activities. In most cases, criminal justice is reflected with regulation, rather the betterment of the illegal activity. Civic leaders, on the other hand, have campaigned against law and order for the modern city. These campaigns have exposed much concerning the values of the reforms, together with the structure of the urban community.
3 Beliefs and attitudes are majorly derived from the concept of socialization, and this will later explain how people behave more than in life. Children that grow from poor parental control, broken homes, bullied in schools, and suffered repeated child abuse and neglect will grow with unfair mentalities. Their morals depict that the societies are unjust and so for you to exist, you must oppress others, thereby developing a criminal mindset. Such children, when they become adults, they become criminals and will support some of the illegal operations conducted by other criminals (Bailey, et al. 2017). Their attitude toward crime is positive. They will live by the street rules do illegal business, abuse drugs, and join terror groups. The reason being, it suits their interest as depicted from social process theories which explain how the behavior is learned, internalized, and transmitted from one person to another. The choice of the sociological theory that best fits this scenario is the Strain or Anomie theory. The theory states that cultural norms of prosperity build upon status, money, and power exhibiting scarce means to achieve since the path to either of them is unevenly distributed. As a result of the blocked opportunities, the disadvantaged group will seek other illegal means to get there. It is all about weakening the normative order of society (Bowen, 2018). The central concept in this theory is that crime develops from a lack of fit between two of the most needed components in society, which is a social and cultural structure. Crime in Chicago is deeply rooted in the ground since the source of power that is derived from poor governance, favoritism, and inequality have created a zeal for power for every individual. Even for those without resource and means to get there thus will turn to use other unauthorized criminal activities to achieve it.
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